Black Bolt

Volcarona

BLKFR16· Rare
Volcarona BLK 16

We are not buying this printing at the moment.

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What the card itself says

Its characteristics and effects in play, with the original text when available.

HP
120
Type
Fire
Stage
Stage 1
Retreat cost
1
Weakness
×2
Regulation mark
I
Number
16/86
Set
Black BoltBLKSet guide
Illustrated by
mashu

Its Ability

Torrid ScalesÉcailles Bouillantes

You must discard a Basic Energy card from your hand in order to use this Ability. Once during your turn, you may make your opponent's Active Pokémon Burned.Vous devez défausser une carte Énergie de base de votre main pour pouvoir utiliser ce talent. Une fois pendant votre tour, vous pouvez laisser le Pokémon Actif de votre adversaire Brûlé.

Its attacks

Fire WingAile de Feu

70

What to make of it

Have a look at what it does well, then at what will get in your way. After that you'll know whether it belongs in your deck.

  1. A strength

    Retreat cost 1. One Energy to discard and it is back on the Bench, which matters a lot on the turn you need to swap attackers.

  2. A strength

    It has an Ability, Torrid Scales. An Ability costs you no attack, so you can use it and still swing the same turn.

  3. A strength

    Mega Camerupt ex runs it in 33 of the 37 lists we have read, seen across 30 different tournaments.

  4. A strength

    Mark I. It is one of the marks currently accepted in Standard: H, I, and J.

  5. Keep in mind

    Weakness Water ×2. Against a Water Pokémon, apply that to the damage it takes — it climbs fast. Of the 3,810 tournament lists we have read, 1,533 run at least one Pokémon of that type.

Standard format: source checked on September 22, 2026. TCGdex

Who plays it

These decks really played this card at a tournament. We spot it by the little set code printed at the bottom, the one players copy onto their list — two cards sometimes share a name, the code never lies.

The decks that list this card, with how many lists and how many tournaments
DeckListsTournamentsPrinting listed
Mega Camerupt ex33 of 3730BLK 16

When it came out

Black Bolt landed here on 17 July 2025.

In Japan these cards were already in shops on 6 June 2025, under the code SV11B. That is 41 days ahead of us.

Every set, with both of its dates

The other cards of this Pokémon

Two cards of the same Pokémon can be worth wildly different amounts — it depends on the set, the rarity and the artwork. We put all 21 Volcarona cards on one page, priciest first.

See every Volcarona card and its price